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Discussion => Newbie discussion => Topic started by: johngalt23 on January 18, 2013, 03:59 am

Title: In an attempt to get rid of spammers, the mods have made all of us spammers.
Post by: johngalt23 on January 18, 2013, 03:59 am
Mind. Blown.
Title: Re: In an attempt to get rid of spammers, the mods have made all of us spammers.
Post by: sinbaby on January 18, 2013, 04:04 am
Yeah man, keep on spammin bro
Title: Re: In an attempt to get rid of spammers, the mods have made all of us spammers.
Post by: Barbie on January 18, 2013, 04:07 am
Newbie land is Zombie land, I can't take it anymore!  :-[
Title: Re: In an attempt to get rid of spammers, the mods have made all of us spammers.
Post by: DonCoyote on January 18, 2013, 04:08 am
And another one's gone, another one's gone ~ another one bites the dust! Jeez
Title: Re: In an attempt to get rid of spammers, the mods have made all of us spammers.
Post by: weirdal on January 18, 2013, 04:10 am
You know, you don't have to spam.  You could take this opportunity to post helpful things or ask honest questions and in doing so you would both increase your knowledge and accomplish their secondary goal: not piss the general populace off with idiotic questions.
Title: Re: In an attempt to get rid of spammers, the mods have made all of us spammers.
Post by: johngalt23 on January 18, 2013, 04:13 am
We only have one forum to do this in, a place with only new people where the primary topic is averting the new limits.

Even so, assuming I want to make a post something in the next few months that's pretty unreasonable.
Title: Re: In an attempt to get rid of spammers, the mods have made all of us spammers.
Post by: johngalt23 on January 18, 2013, 04:18 am
And now the spammers have used the new popularity of this forum to post their spam here. Kind of ironic?
Title: Re: In an attempt to get rid of spammers, the mods have made all of us spammers.
Post by: FramedAgain2222 on January 18, 2013, 04:20 am
My favorite is that the spammer's count jumped way beyond any of ours in a matter of moments.  Oh well, I still applaud the mod's effort.
Title: Re: In an attempt to get rid of spammers, the mods have made all of us spammers.
Post by: John F Kennedy on January 18, 2013, 04:20 am
I post only mindless or amusing things here. Not spamming exactly... but you have a good point lol
Title: Re: In an attempt to get rid of spammers, the mods have made all of us spammers.
Post by: syme on January 18, 2013, 04:21 am
You know, you don't have to spam.  You could take this opportunity to post helpful things or ask honest questions and in doing so you would both increase your knowledge and accomplish their secondary goal: not piss the general populace off with idiotic questions.

I suppose it's a big problem for Vendors or people who need to leave reviews on shit right now and can't anymore. I know I've got a couple of things in transit atm, I'm not in any rush right now, but come Monday or Tuesday I'll want to be able to leave feedback in Rumour Mill.
Title: Re: In an attempt to get rid of spammers, the mods have made all of us spammers.
Post by: skulldrag on January 18, 2013, 04:26 am
It seems to be working so well against the spammers, since now it will just be constant on here, it irritates me, they can not make exceptions by asking a mod, I only get one when I want to give away extra coin or to leave feedback, both of wjhich I cant do now
Title: Re: In an attempt to get rid of spammers, the mods have made all of us spammers.
Post by: johngalt23 on January 18, 2013, 04:27 am
My favorite is that the spammer's count jumped way beyond any of ours in a matter of moments.  Oh well, I still applaud the mod's effort.

They could try a better captcha system. Anything but this.
Title: Re: In an attempt to get rid of spammers, the mods have made all of us spammers.
Post by: Zebruh on January 18, 2013, 04:31 am
SR is going down the tubes. hardly any good trust worthy vendors now and now all this nonsense?
Title: Re: In an attempt to get rid of spammers, the mods have made all of us spammers.
Post by: Barbie on January 18, 2013, 04:36 am
Zebruh a big smile and a wink for ya  :) ;)
We both are at 47 post, almost!
Title: Re: In an attempt to get rid of spammers, the mods have made all of us spammers.
Post by: nmnmnm on January 18, 2013, 04:41 am
I don't know if i can see this section lasting!
Title: Re: In an attempt to get rid of spammers, the mods have made all of us spammers.
Post by: loscoy321 on January 18, 2013, 04:53 am
I agree with the better captcha idea...
Title: Re: In an attempt to get rid of spammers, the mods have made all of us spammers.
Post by: Zebruh on January 18, 2013, 04:59 am
hope this is almost over
Title: Re: In an attempt to get rid of spammers, the mods have made all of us spammers.
Post by: Zebruh on January 18, 2013, 05:01 am
Wooo thanks barbie! you're beating me!
Title: Re: In an attempt to get rid of spammers, the mods have made all of us spammers.
Post by: Barbie on January 18, 2013, 05:36 am
Almost, lol.  ;)
Hope to see you over there with the big grown ups.  :D
Title: Re: In an attempt to get rid of spammers, the mods have made all of us spammers.
Post by: John F Kennedy on January 18, 2013, 06:18 am
My favorite is that the spammer's count jumped way beyond any of ours in a matter of moments.  Oh well, I still applaud the mod's effort.

They could try a better captcha system. Anything but this.
Title: Re: In an attempt to get rid of spammers, the mods have made all of us spammers.
Post by: zerik on January 18, 2013, 06:29 am
Congrats you guys only have one more to go.

Title: Re: In an attempt to get rid of spammers, the mods have made all of us spammers.
Post by: Zebruh on January 18, 2013, 06:45 am
I just smoked some dank
Title: Re: In an attempt to get rid of spammers, the mods have made all of us spammers.
Post by: Blerbadoo on January 18, 2013, 06:51 am
50 posts will be more posts than the rest of my posts on any forum combined, ever.  :o
Title: Re: In an attempt to get rid of spammers, the mods have made all of us spammers.
Post by: x24x24x on January 18, 2013, 10:42 am
Mind. Blown.
You just blew my mind...
Title: Re: In an attempt to get rid of spammers, the mods have made all of us spammers.
Post by: vxn on January 18, 2013, 10:44 am
I must say that this spamming takes more effort than I though initially so maybe it does help keeping dodgy vendors making fake accounts at bay after all.
Title: Re: In an attempt to get rid of spammers, the mods have made all of us spammers.
Post by: OldIsGold on January 18, 2013, 10:50 am
I must say that this spamming takes more effort than I though initially so maybe it does help keeping dodgy vendors making fake accounts at bay after all.

If there is allot of money involved then 30 minutes of spamming won't make the difference.
Lots of scammers first act as a legit operation and turn scammer after a few months (through requiring to FE).

I'm more worried actual buyers now won't respond as often anymore to vendor review threads which imo are a GREAT source of information!

Title: Re: In an attempt to get rid of spammers, the mods have made all of us spammers.
Post by: x24x24x on January 18, 2013, 10:50 am
I must say that this spamming takes more effort than I though initially so maybe it does help keeping dodgy vendors making fake accounts at bay after all.
Good point.
Title: Re: In an attempt to get rid of spammers, the mods have made all of us spammers.
Post by: chk on January 18, 2013, 12:15 pm
I must say that this spamming takes more effort than I though initially so maybe it does help keeping dodgy vendors making fake accounts at bay after all.
Good point.
I agree.
Title: Re: In an attempt to get rid of spammers, the mods have made all of us spammers.
Post by: Stray Cat on January 18, 2013, 01:48 pm
... hardly any good trust worthy vendors now...

Excuse me?  WTF are you talking about? 
Title: Re: In an attempt to get rid of spammers, the mods have made all of us spammers.
Post by: Kheper on January 18, 2013, 02:26 pm
meh

back to lurking I go
Title: Re: In an attempt to get rid of spammers, the mods have made all of us spammers.
Post by: StereoSUMMIT on January 18, 2013, 02:35 pm
So... how do us buyers give our vendors reviews and how are some vendors meant to talk on the forums. -_-"
Title: Re: In an attempt to get rid of spammers, the mods have made all of us spammers.
Post by: syme on January 18, 2013, 02:53 pm
So... how do us buyers give our vendors reviews and how are some vendors meant to talk on the forums. -_-"
I think the vendor thing was an oversight that they'll (hopefully?) come up with a solution to. You'd think that once vendor status is conferred they'd be out of purgatory, but doesn't seem to be the case. The rest of us just have to keep each other entertained or spam til we get out of here. The review threads cropping up atm aren't a bad idea, but it would probably be good if people c+p them into the proper threads once they're out.
Title: Re: In an attempt to get rid of spammers, the mods have made all of us spammers.
Post by: doink on January 18, 2013, 03:28 pm
If you aren't a vet, your opinion does not matter anyway.
Title: Re: In an attempt to get rid of spammers, the mods have made all of us spammers.
Post by: greenfields2 on January 18, 2013, 03:31 pm
saves spamming
Title: Re: In an attempt to get rid of spammers, the mods have made all of us spammers.
Post by: doink on January 18, 2013, 03:34 pm
Another post, boom.
Title: Re: In an attempt to get rid of spammers, the mods have made all of us spammers.
Post by: greenfields2 on January 18, 2013, 03:35 pm
saves spamming
Title: Re: In an attempt to get rid of spammers, the mods have made all of us spammers.
Post by: BarryBarron on January 18, 2013, 06:03 pm
50 posts will be more posts than the rest of my posts on any forum combined, ever.  :o

Its guaranteed that a large proportion of us 'noobs' are established members of the main site, but simply haven't posted asinine questions such as "sh1t b@llz:: why iz my silk road balance dropping?" or "iz got 5 kilo on its way...wot do i do??"

And the suggestion in the SR discussion thread:
http://dkn255hz262ypmii.onion/index.php?topic=107186.60
that members with low post counts are more likely to be scammed has no basis. Mtl john got scammed by these cunts.


The admins obviously knew that this would be a spam flood, this is simply a holding pen to concentrate the "buy btkoin-quick send" shit into one area and give the moderators time to delete spam accounts before they reach 50 posts.
Title: Re: In an attempt to get rid of spammers, the mods have made all of us spammers.
Post by: NW Nugz on January 18, 2013, 06:13 pm
Maybe this will help us all to knw our spammer enemy better?
Title: Re: In an attempt to get rid of spammers, the mods have made all of us spammers.
Post by: Sashthrantha on January 18, 2013, 06:34 pm
at the least, it keeps the spammers out of the main forum.  but yes, i just learned about it and it can be annoying.  however, it seems like many folks are making the best of it with stimulating conversation and clever posts.
Title: Re: In an attempt to get rid of spammers, the mods have made all of us spammers.
Post by: thagoat on January 18, 2013, 07:34 pm
Hey mods, great idea but poor execution.
Title: Re: In an attempt to get rid of spammers, the mods have made all of us spammers.
Post by: greenfields2 on January 18, 2013, 11:15 pm
 ;D
Title: Re: In an attempt to get rid of spammers, the mods have made all of us spammers.
Post by: jones21 on January 19, 2013, 06:34 am
aahhh the irony of life
Title: Re: In an attempt to get rid of spammers, the mods have made all of us spammers.
Post by: TMC33433 on January 19, 2013, 07:05 am
... hardly any good trust worthy vendors now...

Excuse me?  WTF are you talking about?

Yeah, I have no idea WTF they're talking about either.
Title: Re: In an attempt to get rid of spammers, the mods have made all of us spammers.
Post by: woodenblock on February 27, 2013, 10:18 pm
resurrecting ridiculously old threads to reek havoc on the newbie section: MUAHAHAHAHA
Title: Re: In an attempt to get rid of spammers, the mods have made all of us spammers.
Post by: titfortat on February 27, 2013, 10:52 pm
how devious